Sabertooth Wyvern

A flier with first strike on a two-toughness body is a study in offense without armor: it wins races and trades up in the air, then folds to almost any direct removal or a stiff blocker. At for a 3/2, the rate was always behind the curve, even by the standards of its era; the keyword pairing is the whole pitch, and the pitch is purely aggressive. First strike on an evasive creature is a clean combat-math trick: it kills smaller fliers and outclassed blockers before they can swing back, taking no damage in the exchange and forcing opponents to commit more bodies than the math actually supports. The trouble is durability. The same two toughness that the first strike protects in combat does nothing against burn or a removal spell, so the creature is built to matter only on the attack step it survives to. This is a flier designed for the air war and little else, the kind of straightforward red beater that filled out a curve in the late nineties, before flying got cheaper and first strike migrated onto bodies tough enough to use the keyword across multiple turns rather than just the one swing.